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HARTFORD — He may look like Santa Claus to kids, but Dr. Paul Kanev was cool under fire when Lillian Colon brought her 3-year-old son to the emergency room in May 2003. Little Zachary Colon was unconscious. At the time Kanev was chief of neurosurgery at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield. The snowy-bearded doctor is now chief of neurosurgery at Connecticut Children's Medical Center in Hartford. The situation was critical. Zachary was born with hydrocephalus, a buildup of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain. This can lead to swelling of the head and other complications. The traditional treatment is the insertion of a shunt at the base of the skull to drain the fluid. ...

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